People--Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

Name: DAI Junhu

Current Appointment: Professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education:

1999: Ph. D., Majoring in physical geography, Peking University, Beijing, China

1991& 1996: BS & MS Majoring in physical geography, Northwestern University, Xi’an, China

Areas of Specialization:

His main research interests focus on: global change biology; physical geography; plant phenology and phenological changes in China; plant geography with emphasis on regional plants flora investigations; vegetation and landscape ecology mainly concern about regional vegetation distribution patterns and the structure of landscape.

Academic Awards：

K. C. Wong Education Foundation for Senior visiting scholar at Princeton University, 2007. 11 to 2008.3

Society Appointments:

1) Director of the Department of Integrated Physical Geography, IGSNRR, CAS; Associate Director of China Phenological Observation Network, CAS
2) Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Biometeorology
3) Editorial Board Member of Advances in Climate Change Research
4) Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports
5) Editorial Board Member of Plos One
6) Editorial Member of Resource Sciences (in Chinese)
7) Editorial Member of Journal of Global Change Data and Discovery

Representative Publications:

He has published over 120 research articles in prestigious scientific journals of China and abroad, and compiled over 10 books during the last 10 years in the field of plant and vegetation phenological changes, mountain vegetation ecology and plant geography, relationship between land use and land cover changes and terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycles, as well as application of phenology in tourism. His representative publications are as the following:

1) Dai J, Fdez-Arroyabe P, Sheridan SC. 2019. Foreword for IJB Special Issue on Asian Biometeorology. International Journal of Biometeorology 63 (5):563-568. doi:10.1007/s00484-019-01725-x.

2) Ferrarini A, Dai J, Bai Y, Alatalo JM. 2019. Redefining the climate niche of plant species: A novel approach for realistic predictions of species distribution under climate change. Science of The Total Environment 671:1086-1093. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.353.

3) Yang J, Dong J, Xiao X, Dai J, Wu C, Xia J, Zhao G, Zhao M, Li Z, Zhang Y, Ge Q. 2019. Divergent shifts in peak photosynthesis timing of temperate and alpine grasslands in China. Remote Sensing of Environment 233:111395. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111395.

4) Huang W, Ge Q, Wang H, Dai J. 2019. Effects of multiple climate change factors on the spring phenology of herbaceous plants in Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence from ground observation and controlled experiments. International Journal of Climatology 0 (0). doi:10.1002/joc.6131.

5) Tao Z, Xu Y, Dai J*, Wang H* .2019. Divergent Response of Leaf Coloring Seasons to Temperature Change in Northern China over the Past 50 Years. Advances in Meteorology 2019:10. doi:10.1155/2019/2706803.

6) Piao S, Liu Q, Chen A, Janssens IA, Fu Y, Dai J, Liu L, Lian X, Shen M, Zhu X. 2019. Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges. Global Change Biology 25 (6):1922-1940. doi:10.1111/gcb.14619.

7) Tao Zexing, Wang Huanjiong, Dai Junhu*, Alatalo Juha, Ge Quansheng*. 2018. Modeling spatiotemporal variations in leaf coloring date of three tree species across China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet. 2017.10.034.

8) Dai Junhu*, Xu Yunjia, Wang Huanjiong, Alatalo Juha, Tao Zexing, Ge Quansheng. 2017. Variations in the temperature sensitivity of spring leaf phenology from 1978 to 2014 in Mudanjiang, China. International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-017-1489-8.

9) Tao Zexing, Wang Huanjiong, Liu Yachen, Xu Yunjia, and Dai Junhu*. 2017. Phenological response of different vegetation types to temperature and precipitation variations in northern China during 1982–2012. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38,11,3236-3252.

10) Liu Y, Dai Junhu^*, Wang H, et al. 2016. Phenological records in Guanzhong Area in central China between 600 and 902 AD as proxy for winter half-year temperature reconstruction. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. 59(9): 1847-1853.

11) Dai Junhu, Wang Huanjiong, and Ge Quansheng. 2014. The spatial pattern of leaf phenology and its response to climate change in China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 58(4): 521-528.

12) Dai Junhu, Wang Huanjiong, and Ge Quansheng. 2013. Multiple phenological responses to climate change among 42 plant species in Xi'an, China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 57: 749-758.

13) Dai Junhu*, Ge Quansheng, Xiao Shufang, Wang Mengmai, et al. 2009. Wet-dry changes in the borderland of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia from 1208 to 1369 based on historical records. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 19(6): 750-764.

14) Dai Junhu, Wang Huanjiong and Ge Quansheng. 2013. The decreasing spring frost risks during the flowering period for woody plants in temperate area of eastern China over past 50 years. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 23(4): 641-652.

15) Wang Huanjiong, Dai Junhu*, Ge Quansheng. 2012. The spatiotemporal characteristics of spring phenophase changes of Fraxinus chinensis in China from 1952 to 2007. Science China Earth Sciences (Science in China: Series D Earth Sciences). 55(6): 991-1000.

16) Ge Qusheng, Dai Junhu*, Zheng Jingyun et al. 2011. Advances in first bloom dates and increased occurrences of yearly second blooms in eastern China since the 1960s: further phenological evidence of climate warming. Ecological Research. 26(4): 713-723.

17) Ge Quansheng, Dai Junhu*, He Fanneng et al. 2008. Land use changes and their relations with carbon cycles over the past 300a in China. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences. 51(6): 871-884.

Major Research Projects:

1) The National Key Research and Development Program of China: The response mechanism of Chinese vegetation phenology to global change and trend for future phenological shifts (approval number: 2018YFA0606100; 2018-2023), Principal Investigator.

2) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Seasonal shifts of temperate steppe phenology in Inner Mongolia and regional differences (Approval number: 41771056, 2018.01-2021.12), Principal Investigator.

3) Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Proofs for Vegetation Changes at the Borderland among Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (BSGNAR) during the Past 2000 Years (Approval Number: 41171043,2012-2015), Principal Investigator.

Updated on Jan. 6, 2020